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   {
    "text": "Dr. Allen Griffiths is an audible Theosopher⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "A student of Blavatsky, inconsolable for loss of her.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "He says (he’s seen the figures, too) the human race was flourishing",
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    "text": "Three hundred million years upon this planet, ever nourishing",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The flame of immortality (which always, though, was flickering",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Until it burned, a still, eternal red, in Mr. Pickering)",
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    "text": "Before that microbe-chief of all the spiritual faculties,",
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    "text": "The Faculty of Thinking, heard of Man and lightly tackled his",
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    "text": "Poor brain, then sleeping sweetly in his undefended cranium.",
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    "text": "Unable to distinguish a surmise from a geranium.",
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   {
    "text": "O happy, happy period of mental independency!",
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   {
    "text": "O golden, golden age of Theosophical ascendency!",
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